Joint Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Astrophysics Colloquium

Colloquiums are held on Tuesdays at 11:00 am and are organized by The Institute for Advanced Study in the Fall and Princeton University in the Spring. Details on the current colloquiums can be found below. Coffee provided 10:30am to 11:00am before the start of the lecture. The Joint Astrophysics Colloquium is immediately followed by the Bahcall Lunch. 

For questions about a speaker's visit to The Institute for Advanced Study in the Fall, please contact: Mor Rozner, Andrew Mummery, or Amanda Cenker.

For questions about a speaker's visit to Princeton University the Spring, please contact: Christopher Carr, Lauren Biddle, or Mami Akiyama. 

Videos of past talks at the IAS can be found on the IAS video server or on YouTube.

Colloquia Archives

Current Colloquium Schedule

Oct
06
2026

Institute for Advanced Study / Princeton University Joint Astrophysics Colloquium

The future of gravitational-wave detection with pulsar timing: a data analysis perspective
Rutger van Haasteren
11:00am|Wolfensohn Hall

Abstract: Current pulsar timing array (PTA) projects are galactic-scale gravitational-wave (GW) detectors whose sensitivity is approaching the point at which a signal should become clearly detectable. Despite the strong evidence reported in the...